Lady Falkland According to Her Daughters: Seventeenth-century parenting, autism and reconciliation

Elizabeth Cary, Lady Falkland, lived from 1586-1639.  She was a writer and translator,  was seen as eccentric, was a Catholic convert when it wasn't strictly legal - and may have been autistic.  Her "Life", composed and preserved by her daughters, records her struggles to be an intellectual woman, a Catholic, and a mother - and their struggles to be daughters.